USB Confusion. Please Help =S

[Guest]

Under Universal Serial Bus in the device manager, it looks as follows:
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- USB Root Hub
- USB Root Hub
- USB Root Hub
- USB Root Hub
- Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
- Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
- Via Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
- VIA USB Enhanced Host Controller
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Physicaly, the computer has 2 USB ports on the lower backside of the comp, 2
USB ports on the higher backside of the comp, and 2 front panel ports.

Motherboard is KM4M series - VIA KM400 chipset based.

My question is, I have 6 USB ports firstly, whats all the other crap under
Universal Serial Bus? And secondly, I have looked at the motherboard
documentation and I know the 2 front conectors are 2.0, are the backones 2.0
or 1.1 or wat?

Basically: Can i shove some probes in the plugs and get a reading to tell
what version they are or is there some way i can be sure of the version of
the port i test.

Any help on this will be very very appriciated cuz this is pissing me off haha
thanks heaps
Ice

 

[Jonny]

A USB 2.0 capable thumb drive is the perfect device for this. XP will
"spank" you if its a USB 1.1 port that you plug the thumb drive in by a
notification.

 

[Og]

No need to "shove some probes in the plugs and get a reading" -- simply
refer to the manual for your motherboard to determine if your USB
controllers are version 1.1 or version 2.0.

steve

 

[David Vair]

The Enhanced controller signifies USB 2.0 compatibilty. The reason for the other listing of the
controllers is for the 1.1 backwards compatibility. I ran into the same thing with a 2.0 PCI card I
installed, got an enhanced and 2 other controllers listed in Device manager. Then I read that the
extra controllers listed was for the backwards to 1.1.

 

[Guest]

It says 500 mA available per port. That should be enuf to tell me its 2.0
right? I did get a funny message saying use USB 2.0 ur crap wil benifit more
but it hasnt been consistent in bringing it up. That first was the last i saw
of it. The motherboard manual tels me the front 2 are 2.0 but says nothing of
the version of the back four... as i said

I dont really understand why i have so many other entries tho. Backwards
1.1? It doesnt make sense to me but it sounds like these ports im using are
2.0 so I think ill quite here and say im happy lol
Thanks for your help everyone
Much Appriciated
Ice